If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

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.

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.

There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Nick Cannon or Will never did it this ill.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.