Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

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

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.

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.