If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.