When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

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.

The Spirit calls, I must go fulfill the mission.

I began to enjoy myself: being apoplectic's quite invigorating.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.

Be brave. Don't be afraid to be stupid.

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.