All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance.

God is my shelter.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.