Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

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.

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

I think I'm one of the very lucky ladies.

I wish I were a candle in the darkness.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.