Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Change is growth

Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

If I make a mistake here and there, I'm going to come back and try and play aggressive. This is my game.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.