Talent without tact is only half talent.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

Every great achiever knows the power of motivation.

A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme.

If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

I listen to everything.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.