“Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.”

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.

The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.

As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you’re pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job. And life is too short for that.

A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.