The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

Co-leadership should permeate every organization at every level.

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

Heal the world, make it a better place.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.