Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.

You're a free man, act like it.

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.

Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.

Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?

If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

Never, ever, trust a man who is willing to die in glory but is unable to live with pride.

Who cries for the children, I do!

Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.

I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

Don't think you have to be the disrupter to win. A fast-following disruptee will do very well if you can bring your existing customers and ecosystem along with you.

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.

If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.