The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

It's very rare that you get a group of people who are all passionate and driven and all get along.

I have a Twitter, but I'm not a tweeter... if that really makes sense.

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.