Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.

Your reign of terror will soon be over, ” he stated confidently.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

Do you see Jesus Christ as the son of God and believe in him as the route to salvation and eternal life?

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

The cross is the ladder to heaven.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.