Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

Ten minutes of meditation a day, keeps the psychiatrist away.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

I believe in letting karma do its thing. What comes around goes around.