There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

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

PRACTICE MAKES THE HARD THINGS EASY

I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.

People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

I have a ton of fun, I mean luckily I've been balancing a ton of projects for a lot of years now, and I'm better when I'm busy and I just do my job in a way where I really totally compartmentalize.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.