I was your quintessential nerd in high school.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.

They died for me,” I say. That feels important