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

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.

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.

Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.

Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.