God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

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.

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day, " and it was only a small exaggeration.

The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.

Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.