From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

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

The successful possess the courage to walk each day toward something

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods!

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.