A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.