It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony. A Russian state was created around Kiev about 1,200 years ago. Ukraine itself has been part of Russia for 500 years, and I would say most Russians consider it part of Russian patrimony. The ideal solution would be to have a Ukraine like Finland or Austria that can be a bridge between these two rather than an outpost.

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.