The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.

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.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Ian was too Captain America for my taste.

Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing"Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

All good ideas arrive by chance.

I love to say "please" and you have to accept me that way. If you don't, it's your problem.

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name