The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Common sense is not so common.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.