When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

Books are more to treasure than cars.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.