One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

The more that you read, the more that you know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go

I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

One day you're gonna ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it's gonna be hurtful to them. And I hate it.

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.