To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, you change the way you deal with everything in life.

Hope is certainty.

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Even knaves may be made good for something.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.