I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.

Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.

When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living—and to determine that with God’s help you will live for Christ.

Eight or nine out of ten mothers in our society today believe that they have accomplished their duty if their daughters, once married, are not sent home in divorce. -Daughters in Boxes

But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.

for those memories are nowjust like these little kittensI hold in my handsthose can be kissedand treasuredbut not held too tightly.

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

People often think that they are eating really healthy when all the food they are eating is genetically modified. So nothing genetically modified, only real food, grains, brown rice.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.