The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Falling in love is stupid, and whatsmore a waste of time. It's a thing for love-obsessed psycho's and dreamers. And that's exactly why people fall in it. And I don't blame them.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

That's not normal, because we don't want to be normal. Normal is what weak people call it living. I call it death.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

Even the soldiers need a break sometimes.

What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.