Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Success is a way of life with the sense of connection, compassion, and expansion of human life.

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

I will eat anything, at least once. For better or worse.

I write what's given me to write.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.