If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market...Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed...was created and made possible only by an act of government...which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.