Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

Heresy makes for progress.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.

You don't get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.

Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.

No one can go back and correct his mistakes, but everyone can go forward and change their thoughts and perceptions.

I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.