Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.

People want to believe.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.

I'm married to the future.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

Man had to hang on to his pride.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

God's already let go of your past. He doesn't remember it. He doesn't count it against you. Now it's time for you to let go too.

The more prosperity you have, the quicker you ... attract the looters and the plunderers.... And so when a country becomes richer it falls apart sooner.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.