“Life would be much easier if I had the source code.”

Use the truth to fight lies. Use the light to fight darkness.

Aristotle once wrote that he who exceeds in confidence when it comes to frightening things is reckless, and the reckless person is held to be both a boaster and a pretender to courage.

An endless, meaningless string of apologies signals a failure to change one’s own behavior. What matters is not whether the person was authentic or really meant it in those passionate expressions of remorse. All that counts is whether that person follows through so there is no repeat performance.

We define a true culture of quality as an environment in which employees not only follow quality guidelines but also consistently see others taking quality-focused actions, hear others talking about quality, and feel quality all around them.

What if a girl grew up like a boy, with marriage an abstract, someday thought, a thing to think about when she became an adult, a thing she could do, or not do, depending? What would that look and feel like?

Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy, wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone that we’ll use the moment it comes close enough.

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Darwinism is the story of humanity’s liberation from the delusion that its destiny is controlled by a power higher than itself.

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever – do not abandon the works of your hands.

The simplest way to lose your soul is to go with the flow because the flow is naturally down. Only live fish can swim against the current. Dead ones just conform to it.

Buddhists say that a fixed smile, however false, lights up the soul.

Into the air, and what seemed corporal Melted as breath into the wind. Would they had stayed.

Racing over the hills in the country the wind blew vast rings of shadow that dwindled again to green.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

Cold is the counsel of women.

Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was ‘coded’: it was called ‘Reasonable Doubt.’ So the things I was talking about…

There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. And not a one of them is as good.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.

I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.

I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to ‘Conan.’

There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.