"People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free."

"By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace."

"Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God."

"And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the true master is an eternal student."

"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."

"A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold."

"It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel."