The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.

Use your tears to water the garden of your dreams.

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.