I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the gravestthreat to it.

Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.

If you can practice the rule of ten thousand hours, you will be amazed to find out how easy it is to become the best in that your area of calling.

When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.

If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him . . . but it wouldn't be with an ice pick.

Imagination is the one weapon against reality.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

Let us together serve the Nation. If each citizen takes one step forward, the country takes 125 crore steps forward.

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

My love for you was bulletproof but you're the one who shot me.

The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.