Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

It is important to continue working toward creating the archetype of the self-rescuing princess, empowering girls through depictions of women in STEM.

No delays in expressing decisions. Whether its a Yes or No... Right or Wrong... Just tell that for heaven sake.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

I can guide you if you feel blind, I just need you to be willing to journey into my ILL Mind.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.