Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

A great difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May.

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

The bright blue sky remained cloudless, and the aquamarine ocean still crashed gently onto the white sand beach, but the scene was suddenly warped. Twisted, as I processed Thad's words.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

There is no wrinkle-free life.

There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.