People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Will it make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and I still have time to be
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.
I've been to a lot of photo shoots, and I see these girls that are just really thin. They're not healthy. They don't work out.
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
Whenever there is a break up, it's usually not the fault of just one party. Both are usually at fault
