My truth asked people to understand and to learn about depths of pain they had previously walked past…. I had kept my silence for a reason. - from Without a Voice by Chris Pepple

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

Never do anything that someone else can and will do, when there is so much of importance to be done which others cannot or will not do.

Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.]

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.