Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.

... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

The unsaid rules every conversation.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

Every child has to raise itself.

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.