Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Much wants more and loses all.

I—I don’t drink, ” said Shina. The Captain clicked her tongue. “Well, I don’t know your life, ” she said, “but that might be part of your greater overall problem.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.

People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share.