At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.

People who never get carried away should be.

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.

Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.