The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

A strong person cries; a weak person pretends there is nothing in life worth the tears.

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.