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 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.

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.

Anxiety swarms in the heart like worms infect the whole body.

She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God’s gift to her, and she wouldn’t trade him for the world.

If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.