Their Quotes

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.