I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

Happiness, in this world, is a means; in the next world it is the end.

Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.

Big players want to play in front of big audiences.

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

The reason they don't make movies for adults and for people which are the largest bulge of the population is because they are not usually going to the movie the first weekend. They take a while to learn about it, probably word of mouth. It takes a lot of money to release a picture.

There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.

Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non human voices Apollo god of music medicine and knowledge came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping and whales which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz a true rhapsody in blue are hunted to the edge of silence.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

A insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

So when the Quran is recited, Then listen to it and pay attention that you may receive mercy.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come whispering it will be happier.

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.