Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

Our wishes are endless.

I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

That which you condemn will condemn you, and that which you judge, you will one day become.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.

I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.