An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

You don't fight to protect warships or old men. Like the book says, you fight to save your civilization. And so often it seems that civilization is composed mainly of the things women and children want.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.