Being frustrated is disagreeable but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

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

Fantasies hurt. They hurt hard and deep. They lifted you up to places that you could never reach, then they let you down with a crash.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything from it.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

My goal is to be able to play wherever my team needs me.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.