It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

There are parents who use their small children as weapons. They are weak people. Sick people. And their children are watching them, watching how Mom and Dad use them as weapons.

A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.

I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.