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Never speak more clearly than you think.
Sep 10, 2025
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
If a thing goes without saying -- let it.
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"
Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.
I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.
Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!
One day the "Don't Knows" will get in and then where will we be?
Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
I always tried to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that my brains would fall out. As G. K. Chesterton says, "The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid." I opened my mind, and I finally closed it on the most solid reality I had ever experienced. On December 19, 1959, at 8:30PM, during my second year at the university, I became a Christian.
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.
I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Wo— Who win, and nations do not see— Who fall — and none observe — Whose dying eyes, no Country Regards with patriot love— We trust, in plumed procession For such, the Angels go— Rank after Rank, with even feet— And Uniforms of Snow.
Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
You are no better than you should be.
I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.
I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business.
It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort
I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.