How do you hold down government spending?

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.

Losing something might be a blessing

love is like allopathic medicine...it gives happy very soon but it's side effects are so painful...

Look ere thou leap see ere thou go.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.