True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.
Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.
It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.
If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.
I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.