"You have a choice in life of being optimistic or pessimistic... you'll have a lot more fun being optmistic."
-Rudy Giuliani

"There is no security on this Earth. There is only opportunity."
-Douglas MacArthur

Religion and Poverty

"Take the Religious Left’s approach to poverty. To their great credit, these writers are dead serious about feeding the hungry and clothing the naked. Unfortunately, however, they perceive this obligation as primarily and properly the work of government. Little acknowledgment is made of the private sector’s role in creating affluence, or of the fact that a zealous redistribution of present assets will inhibit the creation of future wealth... Christian charity does not consist of petitioning the state to redress economic grievances. Rather, it calls upon the individual believer to comfort the afflicted. An ethic geared primarily toward government undermines the crucial sense of personal responsibility for the least of one’s brethren. True charity, like true faith, must be voluntary if it is to be efficacious."
-Christopher Levenick

"...demand is going to go up for gas. A lot, and that’s if we’re lucky. If we are unlucky, demand for gas will not go up a lot. And if it doesn’t, well, I’ll see you in the bread line."
-Donald Sensing

"What would be your most important piece of advice about life? Follow the Golden Rule because the other side of the coin is true, too: as you treat others so you will be treated. There's an economy of life that works out so that what you get from others is closely aligned to what you have given away. Acting from kindness and love are the most important habits to develop, and also the most difficult."
-Donald Sensing

"Ultimately, information and energy play complementary roles in the universe: Energy makes physical systems do things. Information tells them what to do."
-Seth Lloyd

"Beliefs are not reality. Instead, they are your filters to reality."
-Van K. Tharp

"Our founding fathers made it clear that in times of peace about 95% of all governance should happen at the local level. Now virtually every aspect of our lives is controlled in one way or another by the politicians and regulators enjoying their positions of power and privilege in Washington."
-Neal Boortz

"Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition."
-Henry Clay

"I am disinclined to catastrophic predictions about hugely complex systems, which is why I don't believe global warming is the grandest threat to humanity, and don't believe it is a moral issue that trumps all secondary concerns."
-James Lileks

"Any government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have away."
-Gerald Ford