'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

Lose your self to find yourself.

If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.

A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.