The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy.

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.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

The end...is just the beginning

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

It's 'Heaven Begun', for the grateful on earth.