[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.

They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.

Oh, IMDB, yeah; there's a few things on there that are TV, they're not film, some things they think we did that we didn't. There's a few inaccuracies in there. It's terrifying though, isn't it?

If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.

The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?