Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.