When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard

Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.