I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Rick Warren

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

Robert Mugabe

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Samuel Smiles

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

Bernadette Devlin

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Tom Stoppard

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

John Malkovich

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

Marilyn Butler

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Eliot

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling