"Pedestrians never seem to realize that they..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell

“People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.”

“Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.”

“Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.”

“The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell”

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

“A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.”

“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”

“The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.”

“Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.”