To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

Your life is the only journey, you travel unaided.

The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?

We are built to worship.

Life is too short to worry about anything

Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

Get low; grace will meet you there.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.