It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

Living together is an art.

The best time to do something is when it can be done.

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.

I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.