If someone asked you, why not help him out?

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

But what can you say in a letter?

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.