If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

Indeed, men who have either quaffed or even tasted the liberal arts penetrate with their aid far more deeply into the secrets of the divine wisdom." - John Calvin

A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.

Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.

Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

Love what you do and who you truly are. Be willing to die for it. If you are true to yourself, you can never go wrong

Commitment creates a powerful radiant energy that activates all sorts of "miracles" within and around you.