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

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

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.

I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.

Humbleness is the heart of happiness.

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate.

Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.

Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.