For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

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.

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

I don't want him to hurt like I'm hurting. I don't want him to miss me like I'll miss him. I don't want him to be falling for me like I've been falling for him.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

Without purity it's impossible to realize God.

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

I have very high standards for myself and my career.

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.