I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.

Rusbridger's curious success, especially for a temperamentally remote figure, has been to give a reasonable face to the Guardian's quite quixotic mission.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.

I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference.

I have said that if I leave Bayern I will go abroad. Then came this interesting offer from Liverpool. I took the loan offer seriously and discussed it with my family and girlfriend because I just want to play. But Bayern gave me the impression that they see a future for me. And therefore a change was not an issue anymore.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

What happened today was a terrible thing, but I believe with all my heart that the Good Lord is holdin' all of us in His arms. That man don't know who we are or where we live, and he ain't gonna find out. We all need to be careful in this world, but I promise you, for every bad person on this earth there's a hundred good ones.

When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life Book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.