Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.

In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.