Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

I'm not letting go of you" - Sam

You can handle any situation by divine grace.

Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

It's fun that I get to live out my dream every single day. It's a blessing. I can't lose sight of that and I've just got to keep pushing.