William F. Buckley Jr.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

“He who angers you, conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

Whatever it is, people who have more spare time than people ever had before get the sense of whirlwind pressure,and repeat the common criticism that ‘we are going too fast.’ Yet the people live longer than ever before, live with less effort, live on a higher plane. Is it possible that this common saying about our rapid pace is just another thoughtless mob suggestion?

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.