Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, "You need a single." You feel sometimes incredibly alone.

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

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

Without gradualness...we are back to a miracle.

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.