The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Be in control of your life, don’t let circumstances come to control you.

Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.

To be able to forget means sanity.

I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their 'wisdom.' I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

That grief is light which can take counsel.