People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

Leadership is all about getting results.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.