The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin…. [G]ood men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction.

The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

You can ruin your inner peace when you choose not to align with your positive values