Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.