It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination