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.

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

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.

Crazy is a compliment.

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.