When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.

You must begin writing your life book.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

Having something to fight for will make us stronger than anything they can throw at us.

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.