“Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.”

“We do not need to be able to say what “human nature” is in order to be able to say that some training is “against human nature.””

“Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas.”

“The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”

“The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them. It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.”

“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”

“It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.”

“I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.”