The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.