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“Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.”
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“I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.”
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“The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man.”
Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935. 
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“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
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“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.”
Source : "The Myth Maker". Interview with Bruce Weber, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 1985.
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“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”
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“To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.”
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“A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.”
Source : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute
