Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

... In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive

True friends stab you in the front.

The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

I think the Statue of David is pretty sexy. I'd do him.

Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.