Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

When you feel like you're at the end, Christ is just beginning.

Anger is a brief madness.

If you have life, you have purpose. It can't be otherwise.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.