All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

I am not the river I am the net.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

3. War Peace & Action - 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred, Violence not by violence, Disappear hatred and violence, By love, understanding, non-violence.[241] - 3B

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in external situations cause internal friction you grow apart and then bounce back together.

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.

In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

People invent gods to explain their suffering.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.