It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

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.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

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.

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

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.

Negativity may misguide a person to see daylight as moonlight

I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world when we buy it for someone else.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.