When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!