If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself, ' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

To give importance to trifling matters.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of people who took to the street in a non-violent way against dictators.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

There are people who are waiting for me. I can only continue living when I stand onstage.