"... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact."

“Rules cannot take the place of character.”

“Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.”

“No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.”

“Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.”

Source : Matt Redman (2001). “The Unquenchable Worshipper: Coming Back to the Heart of Worship”, p.89, Gospel Light Publications

“...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.”

“As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."”

“I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!”

“When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.”