Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

As the fathers live, so the children play.