It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.

What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.

My dear husband Thomas has informed me that I can't walk without natural hip action. The more I slow to adjust my walk, the more my hips determine to swing of their own accord.

What lies ahead of you is challenging but beautiful.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Always have com­plete faith in the indwelling God who takes care of everything. True greatness can only come from faith.

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.