The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

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.

Worrying Never Stops a Problem but a Problem Ceases when you Refuse to Worry

If you are only ‘moral’ or only ‘sincere’, even then you will go to moksha!

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.