Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!

I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created.

Charity is not a government program.

If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.