Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

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.

You were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster.

Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now.

You love Roth, " he continued for me."You're in love with him." My eyes met his bright blue ones."Yes, " I whispered, my lower lip trembling."It's him. It's always been him.

We fool ourselvesinto thinkingwe’re strongthen complainthe rest of our livescrippled bythe consequences.

And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.