The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

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.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.