I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

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.

I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.

The ocean is tired. It's throwing back at us what we're throwing in there.

What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.