“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Without forgiveness, there is no future.

A simple way to take the measure of a country is to look at how many want in . . . and how many want out.