We only do well the things we like doing.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.