Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

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.

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

We don't fight for victory, we fight from victory.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.

God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.