Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

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.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

People who create their own opportunities will get further in life than people who expect opportunities to be created for them.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Wow you need to get some sun.” “Shut up. I'm Irish.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.