As surely as I am the living God everyone will kneel before me and everyone will confess that I am God.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man with an ability to grasp the infinite to exist only for a day! No no man was made for immortality.

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not life would surely be unbearable.

I love readings and my readers but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful but I'm annoying and a phony.

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston surely the most lovable the most human and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

And what Socrates is the food of the soul? Surely I said knowledge is the food of the soul.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Slowly but surely we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy which is our objective.

The stones themselves are thick with history and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.