"When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt."

“The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.”

Source : George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.136

“Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.”

Source : Richard Serra (1994). “Writings/Interviews”, p.185, University of Chicago Press

“That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.”

“Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.”

“Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.”

“As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.”

Source : 'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 7, The Fourth Addition (1602 ed.) l. 164

“After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.”

“Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.”