Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Leaders move among the various stages each day. But effective leaders move among the right stages at the right times.

Your actions reveals your thoughts.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

Trying is only emphasizing the thing we know.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young