Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Law is the ultimate science.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!