“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.”

While the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.

I’m back, and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.

And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries, we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

Well, there’s a lot to react against!

I love where I’m from. I don’t live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It’s what’s inside, it’s not what’s outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

Dollhouse was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.

Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.