The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

If you want peace work for justice.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

A dimple on the chin a devin within.

Affection like melancholy magnifies trifles but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects that of the other like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

If you want peace, work for justice.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

I like rural areas.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.

I'm glad I had kids young because we have a strong bond and listen to the same music.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities.

There is no spot of ground however arid bare or ugly that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Gestures in love are incomparably more attractive effective and valuable than words.

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.