We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

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.

What you perceive as rejection is really someone making choices based on their needs at that time

I miss you every second of every minute, every minute of every hour, every hour of everyday.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

I do have a very, very big problem with someone who saw me coming and exploited me as a mascot.