I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing in great crises to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions it is the government's role to create the conditions the friendly environment that will attract capital.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace both in words and deeds. By contrast the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Every wise just and mild government by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure will always abound most in people as well as in commodities and riches.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship upward mobility and individual responsibility.