There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.