No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

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.

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

actions speak louder than words

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.