Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

I want to rip the rest of those buttons open and climb him like a monkey in a banana tree. Oh God, what I would do with his banana...

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.