We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

People with strong breeds are trying to be in control because their dog is labeled as aggressive or dangerous. That tells us how ignorant we are even though we love dogs.

In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.

Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.

Bad shopping habits die hard.