Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.