Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

War is the health of the state.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

You need to take control of your own destiny.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!