Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

You can pick any life area to set goals for - it does not have to be the one where things are going bad.

Rain woke him, a slow drizzle, his feet tangled in coils of discarded fiberoptics. The arcade's sea of sound washed over him, receded, returned. Rolling over, he sat up and held his head.

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.

What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.