Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

Productivity is not what will bring purpose to your life, but what will enable you to excel in living out your existing purpose.

The universe does not carry debts, it always returns back to you what you gave it.

Getting lost in the ‘big picture’ often prevents us from cherishing the 'small moments' that make it all worthwhile...

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.