I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.

One must do the outrageous with style. With élan. With complete conviction.

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.

The shenanigans of the kids, on and off the screen, they all fell in love with each other.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

I don't mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I'm used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.

Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe.

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?