You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

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.

Patience includes perseverance—the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord.

Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

My work is always very geometric.

It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich