If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life.

When there’s darkness, there are all kinds of evil things happening, rebellion is there, and corruption is operating.

Choices, Choices, Choice.!

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

I don't like to read novelizations of movies.

What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.

I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.