The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

I'm trying to feel terrified and alone. And regret every decision I've ever made, drenched in a cold sweat. It's called going to sleep. Maybe you've heard of it.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

If you don't wear lipstick I can't talk to you.

Wherever your gift is, that's where it's going to be your greatest challenge.

There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?