The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.

A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

There's only one thing to do with politics, and that is to survive it.

Almost everything that almost everyone believes is wrong.

The more prosperity you have, the quicker you ... attract the looters and the plunderers.... And so when a country becomes richer it falls apart sooner.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

Capitalism is the key to survival.

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

It is brave to be involved

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

If there is going to be a Big Brother in the United States, it is going to be us. The FBI.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, no fine girls just ugly faces.