Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?

Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.

For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Life and death are two banks of the same river. Time is the boat on which we travel from one to the other, over and over.

To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two.

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

Dark and Dangerous. And all mine.