Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

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.

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.

We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy.

I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.