The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

All that I am. All that I will be is defined by this moment.

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

When you start exercising choices, as against embracing opportunities, you become your own God, leaving precious little in the hands of Almighty!

And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy.

If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you'll find I've completely gone insane!

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.