Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

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.

When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything.

I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.