The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

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.

Life should be simple and easy. If you're doing it hard, you're doing it wrong.

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...

The eyes of others our prisons

The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings of manufactured supremacy.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

No one knows anything for sure.