Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

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

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

There is more to a soul than what others see

One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating.

Seems like there's always someone who disapproves. They'll judge it like they know about me and you.