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

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.

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

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

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

I recommend you don't attend the wheat and chaff bonfire.

...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.