What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

We are the hero of our own story.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Memory is a time capsule

I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.

My 80s were the best years of my life!

If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

when God said "let there be light" I turned it the f-k off.

I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it.

Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it.

To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points.