Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

She'd taken one look at him the first time they'd met and it was like her body had just erupted into a ball of heat and hunger.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.