The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The clothes have no emperor.

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.

Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.

If you tell yourself something often enough you will start to believe it, that is why you must make self love your mantra.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.