“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

We like to be deceived.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Imagination decides everything.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Kids are great. That’s one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It’s a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.