"Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it."

"We are all stories in the end, just make them good ones, eh?"

"You can't be a human being without a sense of humor. It's the only thing that saves us."

"I'm not a prophet. Prophets can see into the future. I just look at the present very carefully."

"When we're afraid, we cling to what we know."