For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

There are no office hours for leaders.

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

There are no working hours for leaders.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.

Don’t you realize the Internet is just a way for millions of sad people to be completely alone together?

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.