A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

To live in love is my life’s purpose.

Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.