“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”

“Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.”

“So my happiness that you're safe is more powerful than any anger. Love is stronger than anger. Love is stronger than hate--stronger than anything. Remember that.”

“-----What is more punishedamong the angry than anger? among the unsatisfied than desire? among the hate-filledthan hate? among the frightened than fear?”

“A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.”

“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”