The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Don't fight your thoughts. Allow them to come, but don’t cling to them. The small gaps between thoughts create the power in meditation.

Travelling on the known path is intelligence

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.

Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

I think that I'm not really preoccupied with my identity or what I am as an artist and how that can be wrapped up in medium. I just think about whatever project it is that I'm doing.