"Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher

“When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.”

“We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political”

“If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.”

“Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.”

“Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.”

“There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.”

“Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.”

“Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.”

“It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.”