"We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary."

“Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.”

“Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.”

“Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.”

Source : Interview with Wes Vernon, www.renewamerica.com. January 9, 2006.

“Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath’s stomach.”

“You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.”

“I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.”

“Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.”

“So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.”

Source : George Canning (1854). “Poetry of the anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies, and jeux-d'esprit of George Canning ...”, p.137