I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

Don't squash creativity, inspire it!

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

My heart is broke but I have some glue.

Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

I want to live till I die. No more, no less.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.