The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.

there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.

Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.

Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, 'What's the problem? You're so not sexual.'

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.