Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.

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.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

My fans are incredible. They mean the world to me, I love them dearly.

So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.