No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

See into life, don't just look at it

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.

I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I'm a Libra!

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death