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.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Those moments you spend for love are the extraordinary moments of life.

Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

The things that matter most in life....Aren't things.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

The most important thing in art is taste.