Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

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

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

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 .

Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.

Death doesn’t end our devotion. It only makes it stronger.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.