One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Seek your higher life, the holy heavenly living.

Love just feels like the truth

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

Send silent blessings to those that oppose you, so they may also find peace within themselves—and the strength and perseverance to embark on their life path.

As they say, it’s possible to kill and to revive someone using a proper speech. I agree with the statement because I know for sure it is true.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.