No sky is heavy if the heart be light

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.