For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They’re much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

LAW: Long-term price stability is possible only when the money supply is based upon the gold (or silver) supply without government interference.

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

I don’t believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

We no longer live on what we have, but on promises; no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which we expect will at last bring the proper sunrise

Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him

Never is a long time.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer

In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I’ll be the richest man in the world. That’s one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don’t have to worry about nothing. I don’t want family members from my kids to my son’s kids to never have to worry. And I can’t do that now just playing basketball.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity

It is in the present and only in the present that you live

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

Life well spent is long.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

One particular day, I simply realized that individuals were stopping me on the road and capturing my photographs. Currently, it is not possible for me to use public transport anymore; therefore, I have stopped going to several locations, and I usually go straight to my home or the studio

I come from nothing, so when I make something out of myself, it’s like I’m making history.

If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.