We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Human beings create more than they destroy.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death.

All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.

Life turns out to be the best for those who give their best effort whatever they do and enjoy the abundance of life with love and gratitude.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

I can't help it. I'm just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas." She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. "Excuse me, " she said.

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone who had read them knows that.

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

I really want to focus on economic growth and growing the economy.

For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.