Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

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.

As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.

You know." he said, resting the fiddle in his lap, "once you love something enough--enough to let it consume you completely--it becomes part of you, even when it's buried and quiet.

My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

If you want to write, keep cats.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.