TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

The reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to kill them.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action.

A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.

Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.

It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.