The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone.The future is not guaranteed.

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s earth.

I'm a mad dog whose only concern is winning.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?