All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past

Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

when you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.