Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Tom. Tom, look at me. Has Nora agreed to marry you?""No, but she will because she has to.

A life dedicated to family, friends, community, and whole humanity is a life well spent.

Fear nothing

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

Our society has become an employee society.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.