After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

The highest distinction is service to others.

You can't blame anyone else, ..., no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry.

Your boyfriend is…well, way buff. Monster buff. Lord, king buff. (Sunshine)

The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.