The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

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 don’t have to be bitter in life. Focus on the beauty of life.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

For always roaming with a hungry heart.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

For so long I hid behind the blonde hair and the blue eyes. Now I feel like I've done it, I've done what I set out to achieve, now I can just go back to being me.

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.