Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

When I was a teenager, my self esteem was really low. But when I stood next to Yunho and his crooked teeth, I felt better.

In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.