"He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles."

“I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.”

“The rules of the track work well for life. Roller derby is life in a tiny circle. You can only go forward, even if you find yourself turned around, facing the wrong way. There's speed, unpredictability, and danger. You can't be sure what's going to happen, you don't always know when you'll stop, and it appears most people are out to get you. You will fall. You will get hurt. But you will get up again.”

Source : Pamela Ribon (2010). “Going in Circles”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

“A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.”

“It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.”

“A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush”

“By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.”

“Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free,”

“It is, I think, good evidence of life after death”

Source : Radio interview, in Listener 17 Aug. 1978