On Personal Finance:

1.)    Do not buy a $50,000 car when you are commuting across the street.

2.)    Some people can get more out of $100 than others can get out of $1,000.

3.)    Money not well invested actually depreciates over time.

On Politics:

1.)   Political ideology is often used to enable people to think about issues without actually using their brains.

2.)    Any privilege given long enough to an individual or group becomes a God-given right.

3.)    A brilliant person is anyone who agrees with you.

4.)   The words “right-wing”, “left-wing”, and “moderate” are not synonyms for the words “wrong” and “evil”.

5.)    The rich and more affluent a society, the more bad ideas it can afford to attempt to put into practice.

6.)    Those who believe that a lack of personal experience automatically disqualifies one’s ability to have an opinion on a situation should never criticize the President.

7.)    Visionaries without supporters have no impact on society.

8.)    Every political, social, or religious movement requires an enemy to exist.

9.)    Any attempt to teach a set of values is an attempt to impose those values.

10.)    One cannot be ‘victimized’ by the natural results of one’s own actions.

11.)    The less responsibility we take for ourselves, the greater the burden we place on someone else.

12.)    Some people’s greatest contribution to society is to remain on the periphery.

13.)    An open mind thinks. A closed mind decides.

14.)    Although great minds may think alike, we should remember that weak minds tend to also.

15.)    Often the difference between a genius and a fool is not intelligence or ideas, but results.

16.)    Most people assume that whatever they don’t know is irrelevant.

17.) For many Americans, their political opponents take on the role of the devil; a general all-purpose explanation as to why bad things happen.

18.) Historically, freedom has not only been won by people willing to die for it, but also by those willing to kill for it.

General Sayings:

1.) Some people are innocent bystanders to their own lives.

2.) All of us eventually die. Some of us just get there in more entertaining ways than others.