It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

You can not give up because life is a riddle

A meeting of the hearts of two Gemini has been known to end with explosive results, Mr Holloway.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

Hollywood isn't exactly dragging me, or even aware of me.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.