The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

Live in the light.

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

Be quick but do not hurry.

Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

I don't expect success. I prepare for it.