The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

If you want to conquer fear then you have to put fear on your fears.

Hitting bottom is an inside job — it's something that happens within our consciousness.

When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

Penny saved is a penny got.

It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Drama is a gun that doesn't go off.

The examined life is no picnic.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.