Man had to hang on to his pride.

People want to believe.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.

I'm married to the future.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

Government isn't about religion or signs or symbols… It's about power and control.

Jesus revealed a face of God that bothered society profoundly! (Carlos Mesters, p. 122)

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines.