The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

...the real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince.

...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.