Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.

A sad lesson that was mine to learn is that you can't lose what was never truly yours. Nor can you hold to things that simply do not wish to be held.

Where did you get your sadness from? I picked it up on the side of the road. Itwas bleeding and scratched and keeninglike a mangled thing, but it looked toobeautiful for me to just walk away.

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...

When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

Assassination's the fastest way.

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.