What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

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.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?

I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust.

I love the idea of rectitude.

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.