Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.