How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

I get to surf every day.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me

The appetites of the body were private battles.

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.

Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. “With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel!

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.