“Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.”

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful.

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.