Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.