"It is the advantage and the nature of the strong that they can bring crucial issues to the fore and take a clear position regarding them. The weak always have to choose between alternatives that are not their own."

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."

"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."

"Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing."

"The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world."

"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"It is a radiant truth that the moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain."