The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.