Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

I am heat obsessed. I crave the heat in my bedroom.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory.

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.