My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

I will get stronger. I will return.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

I needed to get out and my roomies had both left me for the night so I followed the pretty one here.” Did Marcus just call me pretty?

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

Learn to write by writing

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.