Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

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.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident.

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

We are human because we can fantasize.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.