"People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don't know, and people who are more concerned with achieving goals expose what they don't know."

"The modern society is a game of crafty egoism."

"It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites."

"Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God."

"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."

"People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth."