Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

I love my country, not my government.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

Creativity finds its own creator.

The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, likeI had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope.

Being a role model is a privilege.

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.