A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

...His argument, as set out in The Problems of Philosophy, was based on the empirical fact that we are not only aware of things but are also, very frequently, aware of being aware of them.

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters, " Dr. Stone said.

I believe if you want to build up to something, you have to start somewhere - you have to start today and maybe tomorrow won't exist.

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.

Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.