I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

Tom, "said Eric, " just yesterday, you were a complete stranger to us! Now, you are part of our lives!

The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.

It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."

No one belongs to me; I belong to no one. There is no "I" or "mine"; all is blissful aloneless.