Richard Cecil

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.