Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

. . . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.

Well, they say there is no real faith without doubt.

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.

The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

The thing that's the biggest bummer about any live show is a hot, sober room. So if it's during the day and people are a little buzzed, great.

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.