The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

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.

Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

No one can whistle a symphony.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

...the infallible man does not exist.

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

The red carpet we roll out come sizzling medium rare.