I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

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

Oh my Valentine! I was waiting for you next to my wide open window just as a flower bud waits for the spring air to bloom.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

Life is once. Forever.

People get caught up in formulaic answers. When one doesn't work, they just go on to the next.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.