It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

You're a free man, act like it.

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.

Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.

Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?

If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.

Never, ever, trust a man who is willing to die in glory but is unable to live with pride.

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes

in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is.

A young girl's heart is indestructible.

I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.