China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

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.

Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know."

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

I’ve always lived in the moment.