Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine.

I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.

A wasted vote is voting for someone that you don't believe in

My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

Life's a party. Invite yourself.

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

Motivation overcomes self-limitations.

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.