If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Keep secret things secret and they will serve you the better!

Never love someone with expecting return. Love is love's reward.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Food, " I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

Hello, Doctor. It's your man.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

The endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple are so gloriously rich in meaning that you will want to allow significant time to receive those ordinances and to ponder their meaning.

It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.