I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.

I know that God has a plan for my life.

Taylor Swift said haters are going to hate.

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

Those they praise, but they read the others.

Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.

I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.