Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

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.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

Commitment hangs on when all else has fallen.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.