Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

Can I say hello?Why?I don't want you to be alone!

I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn’t understand anything and was a pain to have around.

Whenever I meet a pretty girl, the first thing I look for is intelligence; because if she doesn't have that, then she’s mine.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it.