Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

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.

If I have nothing but life and books, I have everything.

Life is defined by time, appreciate the beauty of time.

The human mind is woven into the energy fabric of the universe.John A. Wheeler

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.