"Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed."

"A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists."

"The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents."

"Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

"People don't live nowadays --- they get about ten percent out of life."

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."

"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."

"Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy."

"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color."

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."