Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

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.

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!