Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it. We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty. It is time to acknowledge that light-hearted superficiality has done us no good.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.