Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

The ethics of peace is liberal

The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

I love what I'm doing for a living.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.