All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.