Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

There's no such thing as altruism.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

We can’t build a nation by keeping the teachers hungry.

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make

He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog?" said that mute caress.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.