The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

If you have life, you have everything.

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.

It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.