Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics."-Adam Pazandak

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.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

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.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

I can only imagine how happy life would be if we could stay so grounded in our faith that we would never waver in our positive attitudes.

God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.

Tess, there isn't a drunken, screaming netballer in the world that would have made me not want to ... continue.

Be knowledgeable.Be logical.Be affable.Be trustable.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?