You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.

The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

If no one hates it no one really loves it

Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.