"Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things."

"People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don't know, and people who are more concerned with achieving goals expose what they don't know."

"The modern society is a game of crafty egoism."

"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."

"Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned."

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."