I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don’t feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.