We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

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.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.