Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

Spring time is the land awakening.

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place