thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

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.

Oh yes. Sometimes love hurts. But the lack of love kills.

If you don't know yourself then take time to find yourself

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.

You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can actually do best.

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.