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.

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.

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.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair.

I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.