Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.