External Reflection

Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you don't make the turn.

In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life: it goes on.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

We believe that one of the most important gifts of our Creator is free will, that we have been given minds to think and hearts to discern, and that to impose our choices on others is not only wrong, but a denigration of that gift.

Baby all you need is some red meat and sunshine.

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

Keep them amazed with your mild devotion to majesty.

Be smart, drink your wine. Scale back your long hopes to a short period. Even as we speak, envious time is running away from us. Seize the day, and trust as little as possible in the future.

Nihilists...fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism...at least it's an ethos...

Life alas, is very drear. Up with the glass, down with the beer.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain multitudes.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the state must be taken from him.

I must Create a System or be enslaved by another Man's.

He not busy learning that which betters himself is busy dying.

Society has always been the free man's greatest enemy. And the free man has been society's greatest friend. How did society treat Jesus, Socrates, Galileo, or Martin Luther King? Yet look what they have left behind.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy...If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Stay away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, can become great.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts-your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions-registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't end up with a handful of mud either.