If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

Genius is not the one who gives answers, it's the one who asks the questions.

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.