Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.

... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

God heals the human heart from any brokenness.

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy.

He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.