Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

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

There is no love that is not self-love

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes

Love isn't a waste of time

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.

I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.

I will knock the hell out of ISIS.

There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.