I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

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

I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neckand float upwhile slowly dying of happiness.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

My wife's beautiful. That's why I married her. Because I want to see her every day.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.