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“Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.”
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“I think people are intolerant of artists.”
Source : "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012. 
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“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.”
Source : "The Source and Aim of Human Progress". Book by Boris Sidis, 1919.
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“Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.”
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“I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.”
Source : "An accidental proprietor" by Tom Teodorczuk, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2008.
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“I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.”
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“What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!”
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“If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.”
Source : "The 'Zero-Probability Fallacy' Fallacy". econlog.econlib.org. January 27, 2010.
