A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness.

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

Bill Dickey learned me all his experience.