There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard fast and specific decision.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant if not the most momentous event of our generation.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having but it would not be a good song in my eyes until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song it's just complaining.