When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.