"Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day."

“The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.”

Source : "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

“One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.”

Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.”

“The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.”

“I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.”

“Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.”

“No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.”

“I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.”