Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine.

I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.

A wasted vote is voting for someone that you don't believe in

My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

Life's a party. Invite yourself.

Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

I'm into women. I've always loved women.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

Nothing belongs to you or me. Nothing belongs. Everything, everything, everything simply IS.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"