The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

To be is to do.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

Give bouquets of business. Introduce your clients to each other so they can work and prosper together.