If government is to respect people's autonomy, or to treat them with dignity, it should not deprive them of freedom. It should treat them as adults, rather than children or infants.

The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.

Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

It might also count as an insult to dignity, and a form of infantilization, if the government constantly reminds people of things that they already know.

Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition, nobody should indulge in it.

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

In Vegas, everyone lets their hair down a little bit and it's a little looser. You expect to see some different stuff and hear some different stuff. Even the red carpet is different here.

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.