Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

Thank God #EVEN# #THOUGH# in bad times not only in your good

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!" Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero

We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.