When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.

…instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities.

All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously.

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,<br> And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.