Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.

Our future lies on the horizon of our destiny.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel’s sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life.

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.