Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom - that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

Angel exists; and I believe in angels but I'm not an angel; no one can be an angel; just we can be straight.

Most of the smart things I've ever thought or written came vis-a-vis my body.

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing by yourself at 2 A.M.