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.

It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.

To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness.

Be original, express who you were born to be and be happy in who you are.

Don't make another's pain the source of your own happiness.

When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.