“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Capitalism has been called a system of greed.

The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that’s new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I attempt to be who I am and it’s fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I’m doing can be a little crazy.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.