Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.

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.

What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence—so loving, so pure, so divine—that the sage bows and the wise man weeps at the sound of its soft singing.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.