Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.'

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Search me O God and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

I used to believe in a "Ms. Right", but now i know there is like 4 million "Ms. Rights" and it is just a matter of which one you meet first.

We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.

If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible.

The guy who's willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose ball.