If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.