Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

There is no need to live in darkness.

I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.

I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.

I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.