It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

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

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Did you think your boyfriend was going to stick around and watch you do THAT? If we weren’t related, I would’ve left too. Actually…is it already too late for me to leave?

Life is simple. It is meant to be lived. Don't over-complicate things. Don't lose your life in the things that don't matter.

And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.