If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

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.

This disease of curiosity.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

I feel like women's minds never stop.

Take your passion and make it happen.

You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.