When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.