The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.

the value of a man increases only when he has a consistent relationship with God

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

Everyone shines, given the right lighting.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.