The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.

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.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness".

I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen

I was judgmental of artists who were exploring their sexuality, and I thought, Why are they doing that? They don't have to. They've got a good voice.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Civility is not a sign of weakness.

The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken.

In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.