When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

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.

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

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 writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

I have nothing against dogs. I just hate rugs that go squish-squish.

The gods favor the bold.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

My style of dressing is extremely personal. I am impressionable only to a certain extent. The rest of it is my personal concoction consisting of my favourite trends.

You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better