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.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.