My father was in the First World War.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.