The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.

That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

You have your God, I have my guts.

Beautiful food and health are priceless.

Love enough to end a war.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.