Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.