The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

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.

Once you label me you negate me.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.