if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

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 will constantly send people to you who need the fruit of your ministry

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their way.

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.

He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

SEEING BELIEVING what’s in front of you is not necessarily the entire story

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven