Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?

Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

It's not enough to say I'm sorry. You have to also mean it. It's the same with saying I'm single.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

I can't hide my feelings.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.