All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up because by the time I was really conscious Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him which is a very close one really developed in more recent years.

All things by immortal power. Near of far to each other linked are that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

There is no gambling like politics.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

As I pass it I feel as if I saw a dear old mother sweet in her weakness trembling at the approach of her dissolution but not appealing to me against the inevitable rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience and pointing to a hopeful future.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues you know and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally and it changed my complete outlook on music.