“If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?”
“There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.”
“Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”
“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances”
“You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.”
“Happiness is something that just happens because of the arrangement of circumstances, but joy endures in spite of circumstances.”