The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

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.

Because what’s lifeWithout happinessAnd where’s happinessWithout risk

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.