Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it’s used up, it is called living.

War is hot, not cold.

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.

A dynamic person can easily grow and become a civil human when they start to live independently.

There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.