The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

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.

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

What interests me is the way people regard themselves. When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.