Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.

Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, you can be the light which truly lights the world.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?