Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

They are my baby Keelans!

When God gives you a mission, He also gives you everything you need to fulfill that mission.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, he asks us to be strong and take courage.

A lot of the techniques are similar in MMA. You just have to look at your opponent and their technique and tweak your game plan a little bit.

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

Trust your doubt. Always fight for your beliefs. That is the path beyond thought.