Very possibly this was the night my white-knight complex, as Solange put it, would get me killed. Someone had better write a poem about it. It was only fair.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.

I keep my hope alive.

I need to let him go.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.