If you cannot predict the betrayal from the ones that you love and trust the most, then you are living in a fool's paradise.

People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.

Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world.

Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.

I am not a man of fear, but I am a man that knows how to fear. Without fear, we become lazy. Without fear, we become reckless. Fear doesn't limit a man, it keeps the man sharp.

A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.

The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.

Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered.

The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer.

Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?

You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.