Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

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.

Life is not fair get used to used to it

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your “feet in the clouds and your head in the stars”.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

The vampire thing always works for some reason. Always works.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

That idea of comparison is what fans do. That's why fans exist. They believe in something and something connects to them, and they have passionate feelings and opinions about films.