Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

Everyone should see at least one street race before they die.

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.