Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

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.

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.

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

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

People come and go from our lives all the time. It's not our fault that people leave. The Universe is just making room for new people with new lessons.

I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.

I had a soccer double, but most of what is in the movie is me!

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

Old men need applause too.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

The U.S. is different from Europe and other industrial countries.

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.