The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

I have had my vision.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.