"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.”

“No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.”

“Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.”

“The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.”

“Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.”

“Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.”

“Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible”