The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...

Instead of telling God about your big problems, tell your problems about your big God.

Judge not that ye be not judged.

Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

An angry man is always a stupid man.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.