The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.

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.

There is no failure in life. It is only an experience.

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt?it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.

A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.