If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

in all the vastness of the world, the deepest adventure is not of war or mortal danger, but of heart, of soul, of the infinite discovery of a beloved other.

You have what it takes to push forward or to move backwards, but only one of these directions is capable of compensating you for all your pain and sufferings.

Believe you can and you can. Believe you will and you will. See yourself achieving, and you will achieve.

I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.