Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

Physical activity promotes high productivity.

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.""Eh?""Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.