Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

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.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.

Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.