When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home
I do the best with what exists.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.
If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
It's a good time for black people to be alive.
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.