To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.
Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.
Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.
I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.
It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing. . . and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.