The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.

The thing is--fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. " 'Cos I had some sense.

... People were never quite what you thought they were.

The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life

Jack looked around for understanding, but found only respect.

Was it possible there was some fatal flaw in their matching, that they were ultimately, impossibly different--dissimilar enough to fall in love, but too fundamentally distinct to stay together?

I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it.

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.