The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

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.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day

Grammar is the grave of letters.

My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.

Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.