Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

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.

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'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

If the spirit of your imagination is limited, your journey of discovery will be very short.

We are all crazy enough to hear the voices but not strong enough to listen

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.