Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action.

Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.