What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.