You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders armies don't.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature and especially the ordering of nature it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

When I was producing on my own I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself if nothing else that I could do it as a woman.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

In a secular age an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax in order to gain credit in the world.

The Border Ballads for instance and the Robin Hood Ballads clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

If you read back in the Bible the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.