I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.

I hope one day I can come into a training camp and not say someone is out for the season.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.