“Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.”

“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what youre up to.”

“Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.”

“It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.”

“Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.”

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

“The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for tr...”

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”