The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.

If we understand each other, we can live together in harmony.

Becoming an object of worship is to serve God for what you can get from him

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice.

Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!