My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems give me work give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Just as man can't exist without his body so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality to think to work and keep the results which means: the right of property.

And it is no less true that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom the stability and the integrity of the courts of justice.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war and in modern Sri Lanka.

What is not conservative about saying 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

To become properly acquainted with a truth we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against it.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.