Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.

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

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Home ...Home. ...the word, ...has ...no ...meaning

It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.