The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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.

There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.

May you find the might, the power within you, to eagerly reach out to your dreams.

All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.

God does not call the "qualified" but qualifies the called

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place