When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

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.

Life eats life to live.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

Everyone is against me - except the people!

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.