The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

Ted Cruz could be president of the United States. If you thought the Secret Service was drinking before

Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Respect your haters. They're the only ones who think you're better than them.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.