I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.

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.

Only God would adore his own death.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

Chance is a word void of sense nothing can exist without a cause.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.

But it is not reason that governs love.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.