"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'"

"We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed."

"My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure."

"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."

"I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life."

"Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism."

"His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr."