Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.

Without civilized social graces, not only is life more difficult, but a positive first impression can be destroyed as fast as it is made.

As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.

Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your not being around to notice how bad it is.

The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.