Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at them when I travel - I wouldn't do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that's what it's all about.
When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.
Al-Qa'idah is in favour of armed jihad only against those infidel countries, which are killing innocent Muslim men, women, and children just because they are Muslims.
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.
The most important thing to me is winning tournaments. I love winning.