I can never tell if guys are attractive in a loserly way or if they're just losers.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Darkness has the ability to cover up

Underneath the Triple Tree there is a man who waits for me and should I go or should I stay my fate’s the same either way.

We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits

Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.

Seize the day, then let it go.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.