One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

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.

Slaves of wisdom are masters of many.

Anyone can look up at a mountain, but not everyone can look down from it.

Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves... then are surprised when they are alone.

A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

The single most important issue for traumatized people is to find a sense of safety in their own bodies.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.