In response to a tactless question he once said to me, ‘What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn’t resist.

Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.

Silence, like madness, is only comparative.

Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye.

May the Lord comfort the lonely and suffering souls.

We should not be afraid when praying to God to give expression to a definite desire even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?

Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires.