"Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off."

“Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.”

“Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.”

Source : Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.

“Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.”

“who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?”

“The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,”

Source : "Santorum Denies Global Warming" by Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. March 15, 2012.

“Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.”

“If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.”

“Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.”