There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Judgment is contrary to the vibration of unconditional love

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

How like they are to human things!

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

The older we become, the more certain our future.

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.