The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

Supply creates its own demand.

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation

A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

If you don't believe in the living dead, how do your explain the Golf Channel?

I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.

With everybody that I've met, there's always been something I've learned about them that I like.

Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.

I'm sure if Brawn GP keep plying me with champagne and putting gorgeous Virgin girls either side of me, you never know!

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.