Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

It doesn't mean, ' she shrugged. 'It just is

The level of Personal Responsibility in developed countries is averagely much higher than is seen in developing nations.

God is better than the best, more intelligent than the most intelligent, more powerful than the most powerful and bigger than the biggest.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.

How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.