It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.