If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

No man or woman can live another's fate

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

America is incredibly professional and corporate.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.