Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?

politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.