There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.

The busy have no time for tears.

My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

I may never let go of my wrath, my anger, but I will always have the last laugh.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.