Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. . . . In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head. . He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.
Keep the best, forget the rest.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh.