I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target

You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.

Some call it Marxism — I call it Judaism.

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

Trees are worth more alive than dead

What is privacy if not for invading?

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.

Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.