Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

I ran for the electoral college. I didn't run for the popular vote.

If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.