The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Too much emotion is like none at all.

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong. The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.