Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.

How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street

A noble deed is a step toward God.

When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.