Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.