The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

You become good at what you practise, basketball, anger or compassion, it is up to you!

People that believe in the Second Amendment and believe in it very strongly were very upset with what Hillary Clinton had to say.

Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Let someone else get killed!

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.