As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.