“Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.”

Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form….Love alone is my religion.

I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth.

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you’re funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

It doesn’t matter what you expected, but you must accept what reality offers to you at the end.

How we feel about ourselves determines what we accept and what we let go.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.

I don’t tolerate it. I don’t accept it. I fucking celebrate it – love is love.