Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

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.

True success is doing what you are born to do and doing it well.

No matter how long it takes, true love is always worth a wait, because waiting is the sign of true love....

No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams

I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

Let thy light shine, then, in dark places.

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.