I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.