Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

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.

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.