The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Things are happening out there. Don’t waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name for yourself. Life is too short to be wasted in oblivion.

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

Trust is a thing you know without words.

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

I can't think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia.