Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

Charm is even less definable than dispensable.

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

Everyone has their dreams. I don't write my dreams down; they just live inside of me.

If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.

If a man has lost everything he has but his dreams, it means that he has still everything!

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Once you have the support of the lads around you, you can't ask for any more.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.

I am the most skilled parallel parker the world has ever known.

I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy but mysterious.

Doing the right thing daily compounds over time.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.