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.

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

But before you set out to make your mark, you should ask yourself, "For whom will this be done?

A wise man knows everything a shrewd one everybody.

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

He who hesitates is lost

When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the conventions that you expect from a Kehinde Wiley painting, too.

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.