Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

The harder I worked, the luckier I got.

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.

Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.