An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

Your dreams were the one place you could be physically safe.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.