In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

There is an old illusion-it is called good and evil.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.