Statistics do not speak for themselves.

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.

Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.