"Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life."

“We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.”

“As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.”

“Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.”

“The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.”

“The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.”

“Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.”

Source : Alec Guinness (1997). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Viking Press

“I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.”

“But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits-he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God.”