"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin."

"In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution."

"History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way."

"I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way."

"I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company."

"Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it."

"It is a humble truth that love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude — an essential principle for the reflective life."