Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.

I'm an open book. But some of the pages are stuck together.

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.

Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?

Truth evolves incessantly. If it does not, it's no truth at all.

Born to fly, endless possibilities.

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

One of the reasons I'm seriously thinking about running for president is that America is not a respected country anymore.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.

To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.