I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.

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

Sometimes before your luck can be good, someone else's has to be bad

The moment you start to positively control your thoughts and beliefs, would be the day that nothing or no one would ever again succeed in controlling your destiny.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon.

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody.