Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.

Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

Let's get something straight - I don't see myself as beautiful.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.