I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

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.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

god is similar to the relation of the water of ocean to the waves of the ocean the sole Reality of the waves is the Water.

He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty

The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.