In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

There's no such thing as altruism.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

Whatever you want, work for it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

When attachment increases too much, dislike will arise.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

Don't worry it might never happen. By: Edward J Petraitis Sr.

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.