Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

It allows you to be yourself, good and bad. And it's a two-way street: you give and take equally.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.