It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the gravestthreat to it.

Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you..!!

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Excess weakens the spirits.

Management is simple, innovation is hard.

The tablet market has only succeeded as a niche market over the years and it was hoped Apple would dream up some new paradigm to change all that. From what I've seen and heard, this won't be it.

Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3

I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.