The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

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.

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

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.

Gratitude is only expressed and appreciated in proportion to your understanding of grace.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.

Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.