Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

There is no future for those who cannot or will not think.

Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.

The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.

The weaker the argument the louder and more frequent the rhetoric.

Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.

I'm tired of justifying what I've said.

And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.