With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

There is beauty in the soul of every man.

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

Choice is the engine of our evolution.

In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.

I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change.

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.