Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

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.

Most people can’t stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.

A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.

I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.