When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

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

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.

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

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.