If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.

To solve a problem, change your awareness, perception, and consciousness about the problem.

We've had our ups and downs since then, but that's what families have, ups and downs.

Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.

Being fearless is not in the absence of fear

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.