The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well.

You are a writer. You just need to write.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

I came, I saw, I was confused.

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behaviour with that of the serial bully