The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.

Tell me why, why can’t we try and start again? This can’t be how our story ends

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.

If I convert, it’s because it’s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body.

You can live by your own rules

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

Find someone who has the life that you want and figure how they got it. Read books. Pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.