Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.

At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

It is not what you do. It is that you do.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.