Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.

Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness.

It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.

Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

The mind paints before the brush.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.