Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to todays standards. – Pope Benedict XVI
My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my sons perspective. – Rufus Sewell
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature
