...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

Every day comes with a host of opportunities but also distractions. You need to develop good judgement in the decisions and choices you make.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

Right now I’m inspired to fight for the honour of my country.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

All pity is self-pity.