“Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.”

In Missouri, where I come from, we don’t talk about what we do – we just do it. If we talk about it, it’s seen as bragging.

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.

America is not a country, it’s a business.

I don’t want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it.

I’m not a big proponent of happiness. I think it’s highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There’s so much value in that. You can’t have one without the other.

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

Equality, absolutely, that’s what defines us. It’s what makes us great. If it doesn’t sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that’s us. We’re equal.

Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing

America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.

You dont know someone until you know what they want.

No more excuses. I can’t blame anything on my parents. I’m responsible for my mistakes and my choices.

Nature has no history.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.

The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.

No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.