Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

People respond to gentle words than scolding

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.

Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.