Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

It is never late, you can start the movement now, the provisions have been made, the price has been paid and the gifts have been packaged. Are you willing to change?

You can't solve a problem: but problems will dissolve in you.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.