Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)

Progress is hard on history.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

You are by yourself for the best years of your life. You sleep in airports. If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.

I'm a real pushover for animals.

Whatever we are we belong together. Wherever we are, we will find each other. Whoever we are we are forever one.

Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.