Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

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.

Life has an end. We are all on a transit.

My heart is filled with profound gratitude to God.

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?

What do you say when your friends come to visit and the dog starts humping their leg. Well, if it's a pit bull, you say, "You better let him finish."

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.

It was the fault of David Trezeguet, who made me do one drink of vodka after another. I slept in the bathtub. Now I hold my vodka much better.