"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

"It is a quiet truth that to live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it."

"It is a humble truth that a heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth."

"We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"It is a unyielding truth that the roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that the highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."