Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.