The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

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.

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.

You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.