We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

Bessie?” I looked down at the bull serpent. “But… he’s too cute. He couldn’t destroy the world.”-Percy Jackson

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Never question the size of Ice Cube's balls!

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

My wife would probably say I'm the messiest person in the history of husbands.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.