Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

The essence of man is imperfection.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

My temperament is my strongest thing according for the people that know me best.

Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared for, not just because it is good for us, but because it is the way things are.

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.