No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

When you dance on your own there is something so magical and so special.

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.