What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

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

Every good love story has a start and a finish. What matters is what happens in the middle.

Your dreams are closer than you think.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.

If you want to make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt–preferably dirt that is locally sourced.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.