One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

To think of losing is to lose already.

We all know you're beautiful, Scott.

My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.