Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

We are the hero of our own story.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

He has one in a million chance of being with her, yet he dreams about that single chance every night.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

From Time to Time, Upgrade your list of Gratitude as well as your Bucket list.

You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do.

Trouble is part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

Learn to laugh at your problems, cause everybody else does.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.