Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

I love to talk about sports. I love sports it's just something that's in my nature.

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

President Bush said global warming is happening much quicker than he thought, and then his staff pulled him aside and said 'It's just springtime.'

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

I loved horror since I was a kid.

Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.