"The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people."

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”

“I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.”

“When we are no longer children, we are already dead.”

Source : "Damien Hirst's former business manager puts art collection up for sale" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2018.

“There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.”

“The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.”

Source : 1954 Company Manners,'The Spirit of The Age'.

“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1964). “Claremont essays”

“The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.”

“The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1989). “With justice for none: destroying an American myth”, Crown