Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

We have to make holiness our creed

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves.

To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.