If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Holy Faith is fear for God.

We each survive in our own way.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

Learn as if you will live forever.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

I see consensual S&M no differently than I see consensual anything: as beautiful, and never any one thing.

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

We are making tremendous progress that ISIS really does present to the homeland and to other homelands of allies around the world.

We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.