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

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

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

Collaboration gets me excited.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.