Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Negativity is like burning plastic: while destroying itself, it annoys everyone with its stench.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

Men must go out of their minds.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Be so positive and optimistic that people give up trying to contain you.

I don't have a normal life.

Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.