We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows.

The world belongs to those with the most energy.

Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ.

The worst has happened. The best is next.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.