I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".

There are always consequences to wrong choices.

Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

Obamacare premiums are of no concern to people in the establishment. Same thing with illegal immigration, same thing with trade deals.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.