The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.