Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

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.

Menulis itu peduli. Menulis itu mencinta.

I had a dream about you last night... I think I've realized why drive-in theatres are going extinct

People in every nation behave and respond according to the values and virtues upon which they were raised. We all are a product of our environment.

Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.