There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

What its children become, that will the community become.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.

I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.