Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.

Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

We really should get some X-rays,” the EMT said. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT.

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.