To be moral, an act must be free.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

We are the Masters of each moment.

No truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she's happy. She just is.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

What you want to know is... does it shorten your life? You can do those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no one's been really doing them.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

Dream big while you sleep, and even bigger when you're awake.

I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able to play.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.