The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

Poetry’s circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

The problem with love is that there is so much of it to give." King Tommy

The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.