Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

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.

Then she took up the bow and began to play. The tone was warm and deep, storied with layers of age.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.