Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it

After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you…

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back.

An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the directionless.

I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.