When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in the Depression of the 1990's.

Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.