All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

Let's just start over", gurgled the hagget's voice. We cannot give up now.

There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.