Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

Absolute power is the power to destroy.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Truth is subject to too much analysis.

Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.