The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.