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

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.

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 first law of attraction is use Cosmic Ordering now.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

We are barely conscious. With a higher consciousness we can open the door between infinite possibilities.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

He said, “Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?