What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

National interest and the interest of the people in power may be at loggerheads at times.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

Corruption may affect our body as well as our mind.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.