“If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.”

“This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.”

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.”

“Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.”

“Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best Ends by the best Means.”

“I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions.
But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice.
It’s the choice that counts.”

“…wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.”

“People may or may not say what they mean… but they always say something designed to get what they want.”

“The genius may appear selfish, but most of his intentions are always innocent and pure.”