I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

Did you know that writing stories down kills them?Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive.