It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.