What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

A gentleman can live through anything.

There would be nothing to gain by sowing a field of wheat… if the harvest did not return more than was sown.