There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.

Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.