An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.