The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

I'm so not a financial person.

Our family was poor, but my parents gave us money for education.

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.