The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.