You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.

Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.