When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.