If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

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".

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.