You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.

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.

...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.

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

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

Every morning the sun rises with a golden glow to reveal the ineffable magnificence of life.

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.