You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Wherever you go, whenever you meet someone, enlighten every mind, brighten their life with love and kindness, it will make your world so delightful and so beautiful.

Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

Its important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.