We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.

They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.

Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride.

Do each daily task the best we can act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

I don't think that Rush, Hannity, Drudge, Ann Coulter, Fox News, and AM Radio can create enough of a balance to undo the distorted media that we get from the Democrat Media Complex.

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

Let's make hay while it lasts.

I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion.

Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.