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.

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.

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.

There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

The truth is the object of our lustBut the light is still so very dim…

Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Do not spit into the well, you'll get drunk