A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.

Disrespecting disrespect is not disrespect

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

The contract like '91 Dan Marino. I swear this guy Michael Rapino's boostin my ego.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.