People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

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.

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

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

I'm actually just an actor.

I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a wonderful charge. I love depreciation.

The word must is not to be used to princes.

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

All things happen for a purpose.

When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know they have something beautiful within them that I do not have.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.