When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . . Or while away the days that come by daydreaming . . . Better still, you can make your dreams your realities.

[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy.

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.

Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.