By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.

Nothing satisfies the soul than the Truth.

I've probably put my 10, 000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

Be yourself. Embrace your quirks.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.