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

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.

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 .

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

Walking with my doggy is so much fun! And she makes me laugh, she makes me run. Licking she likes to make some good new friends, Kindly enough with cyclists who spin with no end.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

I'm an F-18, bro, and I will destroy you in the air and deploy my ordnance to the ground.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

Colours are what drive me most strongly.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.