We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

The school had a big problem with drugs... especially Class A.

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.