"Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God."

“There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.”

“Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.”

“I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.”

Source : Edward Thomas (2011). “Selected Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.100, Faber & Faber

“I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.”

“Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.”

“No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.”

Source : Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

“Our technology forces us to live mythically”

“I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.”