Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.

The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.