Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

Everything has a price, but not everything should be for sale.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.