...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows.

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.