Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

Does he give you zings in your things?

A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.