Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

We are born to make manifest the glory of God.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

Players prefer the FA Cup because it's the end of season curtain-raiser.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

America - love it or leave it.