Economics without ethics is a caricature. Ethics without economics is a fairy tale.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.

The last trillion-dollar industry was built on a code of 1s and 0s. The next will be built on our own genetic code.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

It's the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, 'I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and a button up shirt, and you still look cool.'

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.

Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.