“There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on such a tiny mino...”

“Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.”

“Either the group is superior or the individual is superior. Marxism, socialism, fascism, and pure democracy are all forms that give power to the group and then use violence to force individuals to ...”

“Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.”

“I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind of man who would forsake his own desires in order to seek or preserve the acceptance ...”

“Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same "reasoning" to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs, they'd soon find themselves unemployed. And if they found th...”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.”

“The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; more guns, more misery!”

“If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”

“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”

“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”