"Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened."

“It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.”

“In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they are to talk about refugees in a human way - far from how this would affect their careers or individual comforts - and if they, for a second, look at a mother, sitting on a road somewhere, holding her children, shivering with cold, and crying because they are hungry, I'm sure there is a part of their humanity that would shiver.”

“I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.”

“It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue”

Source : Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

“The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.”

“You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.”

“Will cannot be quenched against its will.”

“I always had a fetish for murder and death.”