To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

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.

Wakey wakey eggs and bacey!

Insanity is when you keep doing something that does not work

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

I love Rihanna. She's such a beauty!

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.