"One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance."

“The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.”

“We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.”

Source : Eugene J. McCarthy (1975). “The hard years: a look at contemporary America and American institutions”, Viking Pr

“One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.”

Source : "John Darnielle Tells the Story Behind the Mountain Goats' Biblical New LP". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. September 8, 2009.

“With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.”

“Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.”

“Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.”

“The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.”

“The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost. Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident. Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and roam naked in the jungles.”