“Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
