Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.
Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.
If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!
He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.