It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.

I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

Many people think they could do much better if they only had the opportunity that they don’t realize they already have.