But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Nothing is black or white.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.