Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

Do not be afraid of that which should be afraid of you

Always take the scenic route.

Just live as simply you are.Don't take a burden too much.

I think there are people living in Walmart dressed up as employees.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.

I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.