It's huge in the U. K. , if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It's a good thing for the United States. It's a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it's only good so long as its illegal.
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together. . . I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.