Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.