Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Maybe I should drown myself before I freeze to death?

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

I never want to lead a team that is not allowed the freedom to pursue what's in their hearts. If you want your team to be fully committed, then you'd better be fully committed

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.