All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyone’s interest

They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

Demons are like obedient dogs

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys not the hated but the hater.

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet.

Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.

And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling