To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Geography is destiny.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.

In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always.

Stand firm in that which you are.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.