Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice

If onlyyou could have witnessed howmuch I have changed: sit alonein a disused theatre and feel whatI have felt, see how the world hastransformed me, like the metamorphosisof a caterpillar.

To be friends.... or not... to be or not... to be or not....

When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

The effort to combine the general population of this country with the current burgeoning numbers of illegal immigrants is outrageous, simply outrageous.