Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?

I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people's plates.

Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

Faith in friendship is the noblest part.