My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.

Summer skylarks Dart about the heavens Above the deep mountains.

We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.

The security challenge is related to the progress and advance we make in the political process.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.