The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

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.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.

Finding our joy requires no leaping. It only wishes we’d opt for being lifted.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.

You are because I am and I am because you are. We are one another's strength.

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.