The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, That is out there.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.