Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything.”Edward Johnston

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

You have to learn the difference between a man’s looks, and how fine he shoots. They’ve never been one and the same.

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

All of my life God has allowed me to share prospectives with people who are different. You cannot lead people whose prospective you are not willing to understand.

The entire world is surviving only due to ‘beliefs’, not because of ‘Knowledge’ (Gnan). Every human being is (living) only because of beliefs.

the greatest asset one may be able to possess is a great mind

Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?

Happiness is the highest good

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.