This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.