When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.

If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.

For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it.

If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long?

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

It's never too early for ice cream.

Discrimination in public benefits is also perfectly legal. Under federal law, people convicted of drug felonies are deemed ineligible even for food stamps.