Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.

He'd known her for five months, but felt like a lifetime for how attracted he was to her.

People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me.

He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.

Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.