The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Hard work and determination-that is what will get you closer towards accomplishing your goal.

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.

I don't want to say my biggest mistake--I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.

If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.