But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

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.

String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings.

Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations.

God's grace is sufficient for us to overcome any situation,

A word spoken in good season how good it is!

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

When it's only clothes, that is not satisfying enough for me. I don't think I could do this for 10, 20 years if that was all. It also has to be about a psychology or a mentality or a concept.

As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.