The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.
Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
I paid $1. 9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?
It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [. . . ] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.