Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

... truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.

Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it.

When I tap, it means I've accepted the technique, learned the lesson and look to apply the experience next time I step on the mat. I never give up.

Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer.

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.