The seeking face that does not alter when presented with peace and reason, must bask in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence.

Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They are married to ideas they do not sleep with, ideas that rob them of their sleep.

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.

Anyone who tries to put fear in a heart, has lost their heart to fear.

If a person cannot protect you, it is because you were meant to perfect them.If they cannot perfect you, you are meant to protect them.

In business, ruthlessness is righteousness.Seldom are there those, whom are ruthlessly righteous.Listen to these people, before the Earth repents of mankind.

Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

She comes closer to me. She is beautiful, in the way lightning striking across a storm-swept sky is beautiful: dangerous and distant.

Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

I love being Charlie Daniels for good, bad, or indifferent.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.