The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

I find overtime exciting. You don't have time to think about anything.

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.