Man should be ever better than he seems.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.