Ryle Hira: Life is what it is

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.

Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming.

Allo, darlin’. Oi’m so glad to see it’s love at first sight for you, too.

Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?

Sometimes, however, there is more than hope.Sometimes there is reason.

When you're of a different race people distrust you because they are afraid. If you don't give them reason to dislike you, it becomes their problem, not yours.

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter.

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.