I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

The best of men have ever loved repose They hate to mingle in the filthy fray Where the soul sours and gradual rancour grows Imbitterd more from peevish day to day.

Base envy withers at anothers joy And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.

Delightful task! To rear the tender thought. To teach the young idea how to shoot.

Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.

All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

Families always have these unspoken dramas and at holidays everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars' worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

Nina Simone had such an androgynous voice; the first time I listened to her I thought it was a man, and I'm sure a lot of people listening to me think I'm a woman. Her voice is kinda like the poster child for me.

There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.

I'm a very proud actor.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.

If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences.