The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.

I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.