I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.

Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

From no place can you exclude the fates. [Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.