One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

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.

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.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Awakening is a different name for raising one's frequency. It is about becoming more aware of different perspectives, from which you may choose whatever you resonate with.

Congratulations, " she said. "You win.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

I think absurdist humor is funny.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

I like what I see in the mirror. I liked what I saw in the mirror before. It just didn't work in a bikini. And now it does. So I'm excited!

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.