While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

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.

In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it

Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children