St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.