Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

There were things I'd never do again, but then, they'd always seemed right.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.