As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves will go completely over the top.

Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

Mistakes can occur during hostilities.