Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Be cheerful!

... most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.

When we say forever, we are talking about a desire.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.