Thought and action must never part company.

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.

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.