Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.

One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer.