It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

When the time has come, every leaf turns to face the sun!

Sometimes, the emptiness comes to fill the space between my heart and my head. It consumes every thought, every corner of my mind, like demons that can’t be put to bed.

Holding onto negativity makes you sick, I strongly believe that. So I release negativity by writing.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.