"The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing."

“The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.”

“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.”

“He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

“Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.”

“You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers”

“If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.”