In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

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.

Patience is underscored with forgiveness.

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

You don’t look for miracles, you don’t search for miracles, miracles is supposed to follow you.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.

When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

You know Chuck [Schumer] - always got to be the big macher.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible