speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.