The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.