Opposition can be your friend. Opposition can be the fire that tempers the better sword, as well as the ice that cools a fiery temper. Don't ever run from it; learn from it!

Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves.

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.