Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God. It will be worth it.

That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.