The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

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 danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain.

Just stay real and stay a real person.

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.