In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

There is no difference between the person living in ignorance and the person living in darkness.

Home is where your heart is.

A life live with God in the center of our being, overflows with joy.

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.