"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

"The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are."

"In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'"

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."