A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours.

Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.

Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood f...

I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the most invisible.

Yeah, but a hellbender never dies. You ever see a dead one?

Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess.Nate

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

Accept the fullness in life's balance, which demands that there are positive gifts along with adversity.

I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a letter? A mysterious but truthful answer is that while I can...

Love is like electricity sometimes; it may shock you anytime, yet you cannot live without it.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand.

We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.