Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

You can never get ahead by trying to get even.