To understand is to perceive patterns.

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.

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.

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

With all our reasons for living. Through our love and laughter, there's an unmistakable truth. The most valuable love in the world is a healthy relationship with our children.

The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.

You're not going to die, " I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.

I eat my feelings - when I'm happy, when I'm sad.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.