No one employed [ chaos] better than Jim Henson, by the way, on The Muppets. He had all these chicken Muppets that just brought in the most glorious chaos to whatever scene they were a part of.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Me pregunté si no habría personas destinadas a encontrarse fuera cuáles fueran las decisiones que tomasen, si esa leyenda que hablaba de un hilo rojo que conecta a dos almas gemelas no sería verdad.

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

A lot of the routes cornerbacks have to defend are quick underneath routes, so it's tougher to get a chance to track the ball on those.

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.