Parsifal is the opera that begins at five-thirty and when you look at your watch three hours later, it is only five forty-five. - William F. Buckley Jr.

It is safe to say that if the Communists took over the Sahara Desert tomorrow, two things would happen. First, nothing. And second, with their centralized approach to the market, there would be a shortage of sand.

Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas – the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code – but because the idiom of life is always changing

Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.