Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

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.

Just because you fall down doesnt mean your hurt in the process yet mabey you found your lost ear ring

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

The only good dictator is a dead one.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.

Organize before they rise!

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.