All money is a matter of belief.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

I think about death sometimes. Analytically, of course.

God can turn your weaknesses into your strength.

Loyalty is standing on someone’s side even if their actions are against your will.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting out.

There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.