Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.