Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

Whew! You two are blowing hotter air than a tornado circlin’ a volcano in Hades.

Just because you are a nice guy, doesn’t mean you are a good man.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

I've never really been too scared to do anything.

Dogs have a lot of love.