What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

I wish clarity to mean everything that makes mind at ease, but hate covers that causes evil deeds.

The fans, and now most of the crowd, are interested in this event.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.