Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.

We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.