Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

The bent but unbroken ones.

The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle!

Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.