A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

I love fashion. I like looking fresh and wearing new stuff.

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

[Marco Rubio] you're a lousy businessman.

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.

Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.

I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.