Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were to double everyone's income, or if everyone's income were doubled naturally over the course of time, then you would reduce poverty significantly but you would have also increased the gap.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.