Every thought is an afterthought.

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.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.

Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: don't be intimidated by other people's opinions.

It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be awesome. Awesome Ain't Easy.

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.

One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.