I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.

Every choice you make is have an end result and you are the only one who responsible for whatever the result is.

If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.

I've always surrounded myself with funny people.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

Obama is ratcheting up his class warfare to levels that would make Marxists blush.

Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.