There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

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.

Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.

But it seems that I can tackle the most esoteric of recipes, the most elusive puff pastry, as long as I do not have to count the empty layers of loneliness building up inside.

Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

You must do your damdest and win.

The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

She liked the way he smelled - kind of free and open, like driving with the windows down at night.

Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?

I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.