Saying it is one thing. Doing it is very different.

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.

Believe that you are the best at what you do. And work hard on your abilities, to make it true.

I can't do it. I can't get into a philosophical debate with an archangel, knowing how ridiculous it is and how unprepared I am.

When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

If you really believe that you deserve better, work on you, not them.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?”

For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.

Why do people want to know what I think? I like to play the game. I don't like to give opinions.