In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

To find it, give the love that you seek.

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.

If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.