Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.

We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.

The only constant in this reality is change...

To want a gift and not receive it, that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

I almost shat my pants. Literally, the floor was almost covered in my shat.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.