The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

It is only when you fail to control your fears through your thoughts and beliefs that they would start to control you.

I've made peace with myself.Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.