In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

I like California a lot. There's a lot of space, but it's actually the most populated place in the nation.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think.