It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

Invitation to Dance-It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.May I have the pleasure?

These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all.

There's just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It's an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I'm really appreciating it and valuing that.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

I love my fans and have devoted my life to reaching out to them.