In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.