"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

"That government is best which governs least."

"Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal."

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation..."

"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world."

"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."

"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."

"Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down."

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

"Life is wasted on the living."