I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Socialism means slavery.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

Love brings about passion and passion is always marketable.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

A lot of people say I can't do it because I'm blind, or I have red hair, or my feet are too big. Get the right team around you, don't set boundaries and go for it.

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.