In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

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.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

I pride myself on being a Legend Killer.

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.