Action expresses priorities.
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote the freedom to err.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts, making the noblest of gods creation, women, the object of our lust.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.