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

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.

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.

Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.

When someone tells you they’re too busy, it’s not that they mismanage their time, it’s that you’re not a priority.

Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.