It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Life will put many red lights in front of you, but sometimes we must push on the gas and trust God.

The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now. The strong in me, I still smile.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Just let me be me, That’s the only way I know.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

If I can use my platform to carry on a legacy and talk about something that’s real, I have to do that, period.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

But life does not ask us what we want. It presents us with options. Economics is one of the ways of trying to make the most of those options.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Some things must be done on faith, but the most dangerous kind of faith is that which masquerades as ‘science.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.