"The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence"

"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves"

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free"

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another"