Reality is not optional.

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.

Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?

I dare make those comparisons, but we often said 'the making of' would be as interesting if not more interesting than the film.

I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.

If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

I married her just because she looks like you.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.