"The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want."

“Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained...”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.52, Transaction Publishers

“An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.”

“The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in many [churches] can be basically blamed on the fact that our churches are insufficiently 'communities' of God. Where the church of Jesus Christ lives, and lives a liberating life in the footsteps of Jesus, the resurrection faith undergoes no crisis. On the other hand, it is better not to believe in God than to believe in a God who minimizes human beings, holds them under and oppresses them, with a view to a better world to come.”

“Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

“Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.”

“It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.”

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

“Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.”

“Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.”