Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.

Fortune favors the one who wanted to chang his life.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

When I go to dance clubs, I always dance with big girls, so we finish at the same time.

We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.