In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.