To live beyond your means today is to live below them tomorrow.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

I think with my heart and love with my brain

A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it.

Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.