I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

Man, I’m just trying to get you lighten up a bit.” “Murphy, we’re looking at a thousand rotting corpses. Lighten up?” “Life is what you make it, man.

I'm always homesick for the journey, ” I had once written in ink speckled script, adding almost as an afterthought, “...no matter what it may hold.

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.