The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.