Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

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.

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as a spirit, exists beyond death; and therefore only he could do it righteously. For the physical being kills a man and hatefully sends him away, whereas God, the spiritual being, kills a man and lovingly draws him nigh.