“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness.