I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

Don't you ever touch me. Don't ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.

We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.

Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine

I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.

She carries chaos like an overcoat.

... the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

I'd give dollar for indefinite article.