Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

The end of love looks like the beginning of war

Life is a dream. We wake up when we die

Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

You need to have the means to impose yourself

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.

It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield

Most people like to talk about themselves, so get them going and you’ll make new friends quickly!

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now and all eternity.

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.

Half-heartedness never won a battle.