The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

You can't lie to your soul.

A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

I don’t look at myself as the mayor, I look at myself as just a normal, regular person.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.