After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.