Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

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.

...emotions fly humans toward art

Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead.

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]