Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.

How about peaches, dear?” murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she’s eating wedges of wet sunlight.

Corporations aren’t people. People are people.

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

"Silence Of The Lambs" is definitely very frightening.

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.