The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

Storytelling is a vaccine against war.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.

Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.

My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?