There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

It’s taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.

Too often we want to take stands to elevate us rather than elevate a cause.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

I know how to make money and I'll make it.

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.