People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.

Adversity tests the limit of our strength.

Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.

I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.

Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.