In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.

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.

Times of adversity are golden moments.

So what if you believe it can’t be done. Stop trying to prevent those who do believe from reaching for the stars.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.