"It is a unyielding truth that to speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery."

"It is a quiet truth that to know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

"If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people."

"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."

"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."