A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

An easy going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space.

I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.

I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

They say Afghanistan is the worst country for a girl to be born. Hogwash!

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

Defending human rights requires vigilance, doggedness and a strong, global force for good.

I always wear something slightly masculine.

Most of my food memories are of my Nan cooking Sunday dinners - roasts of meat with lots of vegetables. I suppose I cook what's comforting and dishes that make me feel good.

I'm awake as soon as the sun crests the eastern hills. I guess I'm motivated because I love just about everything about my life - the writing, the many critters, the art, and all the rest.

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

Change has long been a fearful thing for human beings ... and at the same time it is our most Divine opportunity. Clinging to the banks of the river may seem safe and more secure but lifes possibilities are truly engaged only when we trust release and become part of The Flow of the Universe.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Email is a push channel so we need to push it to work harder.

My mom is positive and optimistic.

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre, and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive.