Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different.

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.