I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

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

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

I would say she’s in the place where the river of time runs into, where the holograms go when they disappear into the air, she is neither completely dreaming, nor fully awake,

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

If you want to be successful, never laugh!

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.

I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.