No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

The law is reason, free from passion.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even capable of forming such opinions.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.