Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

Things don't matter, people do

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

I can only strive for what is important

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

I need them and they need me to need them

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'.

God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.