"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

"Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."

"Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist."

"The silent observer understands that a mind at peace can weather any storm."

"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."

"Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way."

"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes."