To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

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.

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.

There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.