As part of my misspent youth, I spent too much time in the sun, and every few months, I have to go and have some basal cell removed from my old craggy features.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Education is for freedom - freedom from mental slavery.

It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

I think you direct a movie just to express your own self.

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.