Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

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.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

The greatest thinker we can ever think of is Jesus Christ. He knew how to make His contenders ponder in awe

Murder and a glass of wine: priceless

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.