Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.