If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

All art is quite useless.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.